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... dispensations ; meek , gen- tle , forbearing , and kind to my fellow - worms . Then I should be active and diligent in improving all my talents and powers in his service , and for his glory ; and live not to myself , but to him who ...
... dispensations ; meek , gen- tle , forbearing , and kind to my fellow - worms . Then I should be active and diligent in improving all my talents and powers in his service , and for his glory ; and live not to myself , but to him who ...
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... dispensation had not taken place . All must be left soon ; for all below is polluted , and in its best state is too scanty to afford us happiness . If we are believers in Jesus , all we can quit is a mere nothing , compared with what we ...
... dispensation had not taken place . All must be left soon ; for all below is polluted , and in its best state is too scanty to afford us happiness . If we are believers in Jesus , all we can quit is a mere nothing , compared with what we ...
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... dispensation not excepted ) , were appointed and adjusted by infinite wisdom and in- finite love . The Lord , who knows our frame , does not expect or require that we should aim at a Stoical indifference under 32 Let . 1 . Letters to ...
... dispensation not excepted ) , were appointed and adjusted by infinite wisdom and in- finite love . The Lord , who knows our frame , does not expect or require that we should aim at a Stoical indifference under 32 Let . 1 . Letters to ...
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... dispensations which I little expect- ed ; it the first rise of which I have been able to trace far back , and forced to confess , that the Lord is indeed He that judgeth the heart and trieth the reins . I hint this for your caution ...
... dispensations which I little expect- ed ; it the first rise of which I have been able to trace far back , and forced to confess , that the Lord is indeed He that judgeth the heart and trieth the reins . I hint this for your caution ...
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... dispensations to say , All is well . Yet the flesh will feel , and it ought ; otherwise the exercise of faith , patience , and resignation , would be impracticable . I have lost in him one of my most valued and valuable friends : but ...
... dispensations to say , All is well . Yet the flesh will feel , and it ought ; otherwise the exercise of faith , patience , and resignation , would be impracticable . I have lost in him one of my most valued and valuable friends : but ...
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Page 342 - For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Page 356 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 493 - Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
Page 527 - He shall come to be glorified in his saints, and admired in all them that believe in that day.
Page 561 - I was in trouble. 13 I will offer unto thee fat burnt-sacrifices, with the incense of rams : I will offer bullocks and goats. 14 O come hither, and hearken, all ye that fear God : and I will tell you what he hath done for my soul.
Page 375 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Page 545 - Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Page 545 - God : being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus ; whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness : that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Page 582 - I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
Page 341 - Brother, fear not; greater is he that is in us, than he that is in the world.